Elder Mistreatment Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America (2003) / Chapter Skim
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APPENDIX D Biographical Sketches Richard I Bonnie (Chair)
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She has conducted research on state statutes governing elder abuse and studied factors contributing to the unmet legal needs of the elderly. She assisted in drafting the National Handbook on Laws and Programs Affecting Senior Citizens and was awarded the title of Virginia's Ambassador for the Aging by the Virginia Department for the Aging.
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She is the current president of the National Association of Adult Protective Services Administrators, an organization that strives to improve the quality and availability of services to vulnerable adults who are abused, neglected, and exploited, to promote advocacy, training, and research in the field and to educate the public and government leaders on behalf of this population. She received her B.A.
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252 ELDER MISTREATMENT American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, an associate director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the Pritzker School of Medicine, a member of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Chicago Information Center, current chair of the section on economic and political sciences of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a former member of the University of Chicago board of governors for the Argonne National Laboratory, and a former member of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago Hospitals.
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Previously she served as the co-chief of the Elder Abuse Domain of the California Medical Training Center, where she was responsible for creating and implementing courses designed to train physicians and health care professionals in the medical forensic aspects of elder abuse.
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Administration on Aging. She serves on the board of directors of the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and is the author of Elder Abuse in the State Courts: Three Curricu~r fudges and Court Staff and Recommended Guidelines for State Courts
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Department of Justice, coordinates its Nursing Home Initiative and elder justice activities. In that capacity, she coordinates the department's internal efforts and works with federal, state, and local entities (and in particular with the U.S.
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Carmel Bitondo Dyer is associate professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine as well as co-director and founder of the Texas Elder Abuse and Mistreatment Institute established in 1997. Her clinical interests include care of the elderly poor, elder mistreatment, dementia, delirium, depression, and geriatric assessment.
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She passed away in fall 2001. A major portion of her time in the past two decades was devoted to the study of elder abuse in domestic settings.
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Part II Background Papers
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